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Juve

Juve (or JUVE) is a German publisher that covers patent law, especially in Europe.

  • 11.21.15 German Press Says Broken EPO Lets President Severely Punish Staff Not Even Guilty of Any Wrongdoing
  • 02.09.16 Even the Legal Community is Upset at Benoît Battistelli for the Damage He Did to the EPO
  • 03.19.16 Conflict at the European Patent Office: Battistelli gets away with a slap on the wrist
  • 03.20.16 Conflicto en la Oficina Europea de Patentes: Battistelli se sale con un tirón de orejas
  • 01.28.17 Juve Survey: Stakeholders Want Benoît Battistelli Out
  • 06.30.17 The EPO Has Officially Confirmed That Christoph Ernst Will ‘Boss’ (and Soon Replace) Battistelli
  • 10.27.18 Lobbying and Blackmail Rewarded? JUVE Awards Team UPC Firm Bardehle Pagenberg, Which Represents Microsoft’s Worst Patent Troll, Intellectual Ventures.
  • 01.20.19 JUVE Creates English Site, Promotes Unified Patent Court (UPC)


  • 03.05.16 JUVE Translation: EPO Quick to Announce Success Story of Dialogue with Small Unions
  • 03.06.16 Traducción JUVE: EPO Lista Para Anunciar la Exitósa Historia de Diálogo Con Sindicatos Pequeños
  • 10.03.16 Translation and Response to Battistelli’s Face-Saving ‘Interview’ With Juve
  • 02.07.17 Translation: Juve Survey That Shows 0% Approval of Battistelli and Growing Concerns About the EPO
  • 09.06.17 Juve Reveals That Ingve Stjerna is the ‘UPC Slayer’ While the EPO Continues to Lobby, Mislead
  • 10.19.17 Juve Has Confirmed That António Campinos is French
  • 11.25.17 In New EPO Interview With Juve, Chairman of the Administrative Council Criticises Battistelli
  • 11.26.17 Early Certainty Battistelli Will be Gone Soon: “JUVE Interview Creates the Impression That Benoit Battistelli’s Term in Office is Already Over.”


  • 06.07.15 Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About the EPO’s Investigation Unit and Control Risks Group
  • 10.20.15 German Broadcaster on European Patent Office (EPO) Preferential Treatment for Microsoft and Others
  • 10.30.15 Former German Constitutional Court Judge Denounces the EPO’s Possible Campaign of Defamation Against Judge Accused of Truth-Telling
  • 11.03.15 The Benoît Battistelli Way or the Highway: EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal is Being Discredited, SUEPO Web Site is Down Again
  • 11.20.15 In an Effort to Counter EPO Staff Narrative (After ~2,000 of Staff Protest) EPO Management Portrays Staff as Violent But Provides No Evidence
  • 11.23.15 The Bogus Narrative Floated by EPO Management: Our Judges and Examiners Are Armed and Violent
  • 11.24.15 New Heise Article Makes It Clear That ‘Nazi’-Themed Accusations Against the Suspended Board Judge Were Insufficiently Substantiated
  • 12.24.15 Concerns About the Unitary Patent Court (UPC) Among EPO Staff an Outcome of Battistelli’s Attacks on Staff
  • 12.26.15 Benoît Battistelli Fails to Get Majority of 38 Member States to Crush the Boards, Which Are Already Being Crushed Anyway (23 Vacant Judge Positions)
  • 01.12.16 Transparency is Sunlight in the Kingdom of the EPO Vampires
  • 01.16.16 Summarising the Latest Attacks by the European Patent Office (EPO) on European Society, With Complicity of Corporate Media
  • 01.16.16 Transparencia es Luz del Sol en el Reino de los Vampiros de la OEP
  • 02.08.16 Latest Propaganda From the EPO’s Management an Effort to Make the EPO the Tool of Megacorporations
  • 02.09.16 The EPO’s Benoît Battistelli is the Dictator Who Can No Longer Dictate Like He Used to
  • 02.15.16 Última Propaganda de la Gerencia de la OEP un Esfuerzo para hacer de ella la Herramienta de las Grandes Corporaciones
  • 02.22.16 More Political Action in France, Still Firmly Against the Largely French EPO Management
  • 02.25.16 European Patent Office: Battistelli Gets Official Warning
  • 02.25.16 The Mass Media Recognises This May be the End of the Battistelli Regime
  • 03.01.16 Team Battistelli’s New Media Strategy at Times of EPO Emergency
  • 03.04.16 Why the Letter in Support of Battistelli is Worse Than a Lie and Should be Thrown to the Wastebasket by the Organisation’s Administrative Council
  • 03.17.16 Insider’s Account (Not Face-Saving EPO Statement) Reveals That Even Battistelli’s Allies Turn Against Him, EPO ‘Results’ Not Believed by Some, and Munich Protests Break Records
  • 06.15.16 Benoît Battistelli Apparently Breaks the Rules Again and Says That Transparent Trial is Unlawful, Threatens Those Involved
  • 06.23.16 Looks Increasingly Plausible That Battistelli is Covering up Bogus and/or Illegally-Obtained ‘Evidence’ From the EPO’s Investigative Unit
  • 06.25.16 With UPC Dead for Battistelli’s Entire Remaining Term, No Reason for the EPO or the Administrative Council to Keep Battistelli Around
  • 06.28.16 New Efforts to Work Around Barriers to UPC in Light of ‘Brexit’; Behind These Efforts Are Self-Serving Patent Profiteers
  • 06.28.16 ES: Con la UPC Muerta por el Resto del Termino de Battistelli, No Hay Razón para que la EPO o el Consejo Administrativo Sigan Manteniéndolo Más
  • 06.28.16 ES: Cada Vez Más Parece Que Battistelli está Escondiéndo ‘Evidencia’ Falsa y/o Ilegalmente Obtenda de la Unidad Investigativa de la EPO
  • 07.11.16 Benoît Battistelli’s Attacks on EPO Unions, Judges, Boards, and Even Justice Itself the Subject of Media Fascination
  • 09.20.16 Like Big Tobacco Lobbyists, Benoît Battistelli and Team UPC Are Just Chronically Lying and Manipulating Politicians With Their Lies
  • 09.30.16 New Paper Provides Evidence of Sinking Patent Quality at the EPO, Refuting the Liar in Chief Battistelli
  • 10.01.16 Benoît Battistelli and Team UPC Are at War With European Democracy, Which They View as an Obstacle to Money and Power
  • 10.14.16 EPO Administrative Council Meeting Turning Point – Part V: “Siegfried Bross as President of the Boards of Appeal!”
  • 10.16.16 As Expected, Benoît Battistelli Puts Longtime Ally Roland Grossenbacher on Top of Boards of Appeal
  • 12.15.16 Confirmed: Judge Carl Josefsson Chosen by the Administrative Council for the Secretive Patent Organisation
  • 12.15.16 Shame on the German Media for the Media Blackout Surrounding EPO Protests in Munich (and Sometimes Berlin)
  • 01.31.17 Battistelli “Got Full Dictatorial Unaccountable Control of a Diplomatically Immune Organisation”
  • 02.01.17 EPO Stakeholders Want Battistelli and His Goons Ousted, They Can Accomplish This by Working Together (Like a Union)
  • 02.02.17 Growing Rift Between EPO Stakeholders and the Office, Due to Battistelli’s Appalling Leadership
  • 03.14.17 EPO Protest Tomorrow, Heads of Delegations Informed Regarding the Reasons
  • 03.21.17 Letter to Angela Merkel Expresses Concerns About Impact of EPO Scandals on Germany and Its Image
  • 03.22.17 The Battistelli Regime, With Its Endless Scandals, Threatens to Crash the Unitary Patent (UPC), Stakeholders Concerned
  • 03.28.17 In Attempt to Promote the Horrific UPC (Poor Quality of Patents Everywhere), Minnoye and Casado Cerviño Attack Their Own Staff for Saying the Truth
  • 04.11.17 The European Patent Office Has Entered a Dark Era of Anti-Science and Fake ‘Research’
  • 04.11.17 Unitary Patent (UPC) is Stuck as the “British Are Hesitant in UPC Ratification,” According to New Report
  • 04.13.17 Awful Quality of EPO-Granted European Patents (EPs) Becomes a Mainstream Topic
  • 04.14.17 No, Bristows, UPC Won’t Happen Just Because You Mislead About It
  • 04.22.17 The European Patent Office Has Just Killed a Cat (or Skinned a ‘Kat’)
  • 05.01.17 Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part X: When EPO Calls the Truth “Defamation”
  • 06.14.17 Even UPC Proponents, Paid by the EPO’s PR Firm, Admit That UPC May Never Happen
  • 06.24.17 The Tide Has Turned Against the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and It Finally Looks as ‘Alive’ as TPP
  • 06.28.17 Bristows LLP is Still Trying to Attach Wings to the UPC and Distract From Serious (Likely Fatal) Barriers to It
  • 07.13.17 Looking Forward to a Battistelli-less and Kongstad-less European Patent Office
  • 07.26.17 The Latest Lies From the EPO (Regarding Quality) and the Reason the UPC Won’t Happen (Any Time Soon at Least)
  • 08.07.17 German Media Names António Campinos as Likely Successor of Battistelli
  • 08.18.17 Lack of Independent Judiciary Under the Unitary Patent (Like Boards of Appeal Under Battistelli, in Defiance of the EPC) Will Possibly Kill the Unified Patent Court
  • 09.05.17 Deepening EPO Crisis and a New Report Titled “EPO Patent Filing a Rigged Game in Europe”
  • 09.07.17 Personal Attacks, Censorship of Comments and More Nefarious Tricks Expected in the Wake of UPC Panic
  • 09.11.17 Ingve Stjerna’s Complaint Casts a Shadow Over the Unconstitutional Unified Patent Court (UPC)
  • 09.15.17 The UPC Fantasy is Going Nowhere as Complaints and Paperwork Pile Up
  • 09.24.17 IBM and IPO Continue Working Behind the Scenes to Undermine Alice and Promote Software Patents
  • 09.30.17 Jesper Kongstad’s Last Day is Today, But the EPO Remains a Sordid Mess Like the UPC
  • 10.12.17 Patent Quality at the EPO (European Patents) is Slipping While Battistelli’s Office Boasts “Expansion of Early Certainty” (Even Worse)
  • 10.12.17 The Hogwash Begins: Patent Microcosm’s Media Pretends Campinos is Anything But Battistelli’s French Succession Plan
  • 10.17.17 Rumours That António Campinos Initially Had No Competition at All (for Battistelli’s Succession) Are Confirmed
  • 10.22.17 Speaking of “Social Democracy” While Suffering Extreme Democratic Deficiency
  • 10.26.17 Big Blow for the Unitary Patent (UPC) as Even Patent Professionals Say “It’s Dead”
  • 11.08.17 Kluwer Patent Blog is Down/Sabotaged, But UPC and EPO Spin Carries on in Other Sites
  • 11.25.17 Even UPC Proponents Admit UPC is Dead: “This is the End, My Friend”
  • 11.28.17 EPO Budget (Users’ Money) Has Been Corrupting Media and Academia
  • 11.28.17 Pressure is Growing for Christoph Ernst to Stop Destruction of Career System Ahead of Arrival of Campinos as EPO President
  • 12.07.17 Less Than 24 Hours Later the EPO Already Refuses to Obey Court Orders From ILO (Updated)
  • 12.07.17 Battistelli’s ‘Mole’ Lucy Neville-Rolfe is Still Trying to Push Unitary Patent (UPC) Through in the United Kingdom
  • 12.08.17 European Media Covers the Latest EPO Scandal and the EPO’s Refusal to Obey Orders of a Court
  • 12.12.17 Claim: Judge Corcoran to Be Put Under Benoît Battistelli’s Control in DG1
  • 12.12.17 German Media Helps Cover Up — Not Cover — the Latest EPO Scandal
  • 12.14.17 Patrick Corcoran is Innocent, Yet Battistelli Will/May Have the Power to Sack Him Next Month (in DG1)
  • 12.16.17 EPO Busy Distracting From Miscarriage/Abuse of Justice at the EPO (Both Office and Organisation)
  • 12.19.17 Today’s Report From the Administrative Council (AC) of the European Patent Organisation ‘Tackles’ the Most Important Issue: Judge Corcoran
  • 12.21.17 EPO Judicial Crisis Has Not Ended, But the Administrative Council Certainly Tries to Sell That Impression
  • 12.21.17 Media Blackout in Most European Media Regarding the Latest Major EPO Scandal
  • 12.23.17 Patent Quality Nosedives at EPO, Say Insiders Whose Permanent Contract is About to be Terminated in 8 Days to Increase Pressure to Grant Patents Sparingly
  • 12.23.17 “Change of Attitude and Behaviour Needed,” Say Anonymous EPO Workers About the Management and Administrative Council
  • 12.31.17 Just 3 Days Before Christmas Judge Corcoran is Told That His Boss Becomes Battistelli, Who Wants to Remain in Control for Years to Come
  • 01.03.18 Translation Shows That Carl Josefsson and Christoph Ernst Refuse to Comment on EPO Injustice as It Might Embarrass Battistelli
  • 01.20.18 Patent Quality (Not Numbers) as an Asset: Oppositions, Appeals and Rejections at the EPO
  • 01.24.18 Team UPC Has Been Reduced to Rubble and Misinformation
  • 01.25.18 Justice Still Elusive at the EPO and ILOAT, But a Glimmer of Hope Remains
  • 01.25.18 A European Unitary Patent-Like System (e.g. UPC) is Not Compatible With Law; Expect it to Rot Away at the German Federal Constitutional Court
  • 01.27.18 Another Blow for the Unitary Patent (UPC) as More Delays Are Confirmed, Court Won’t Rule on Constitutional Issues Any Time Soon
  • 02.15.18 Bavarian State Parliament Has Upcoming Debate About Issues Which Can Thwart UPC for Good
  • 02.17.18 UPC Has Done Nothing for Europe Except Destruction of the EPO and Imminent Layoffs Due to Lack of Applications and Lowered Value of European Patents
  • 02.20.18 Another Loud Warning From EPO Workers About the Decline of Patent Quality
  • 02.21.18 End of the UPC Lobby and Withdrawal of UPCA May Seem Imminent
  • 03.13.18 Battistelli Likes to Describe His Critics as ‘Nazis’, Team UPC Will Attempt the Same Thing Against UPC Critics
  • 04.07.18 Patent Maximalists Against Patent Quality and Against the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Organisation (EPO)
  • 04.07.18 Team UPC’s and Team Battistelli’s Lobbying Not Over Yet, Even Though the UPC is Likely Dead for Good
  • 04.11.18 One Last Battistelli Heist: Millions of Euros for Saint-Germain-en-Laye
  • 04.17.18 The European Patent Office (EPO) Grants Patents in Error, Insiders Are Complaining That It’s the Management’s Fault
  • 04.19.18 The Boards of Appeal at the European Patent Organisation (EPO) Complain That They Are Understaffed, Not Just Lacking the Independence They Depend on
  • 04.27.18 Sam Gyimah Did What Was Expected Since 2016, But Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Still Completely Stuck in Most Important Country and Is Not Compatible With Brexit
  • 05.10.18 EPO Scandals Are Far Worse Than FIFA’s (or Even Emissionsgate/Dieselgate), But Will European Media Belatedly Realise This?
  • 05.12.18 EPO Staff Deprived and Denied Basic Rights, Even Justice, But Almost Nobody in the ‘Mainstream’ Wants to Talk About It
  • 05.17.18 Today’s EPO Financially Rewards Abuses and Violations of the Law
  • 06.23.18 Mainstream Media in Germany Covers Battistelli’s Corruption at the EPO Just as He Leaves
  • 06.28.18 Eight Years of Battistelli
  • 07.02.18 First Day for António Campinos is Done, But Some Media is Still Publishing 90th-Minute Battistelli Puff Pieces
  • 10.13.18 100 Days Into the Term of Campinos There is Already an EPO Suicide
  • 10.23.18 The EPO Under António Campinos Has Opened More Doors to Software Patents and Only Litigators Are Happy
  • 11.04.18 Team UPC’s Last Resort: Stacked Panels, Anonymously Belittling the Opposition (e.g. Ingve Björn Stjerna) and Taking Control of the Media
  • 11.08.18 The António Campinos Private/Secret Meeting With ILO Officials a Slap Across the Face to Employees of the European Patent Office
  • 11.12.18 Team UPC, Fronting for Patent Trolls From the US, is Calling Facts “Resistance”
  • 12.07.18 The European Patent Organisation is Like a Private Club and Roland Grossenbacher is Back in It
  • 12.09.18 Team UPC is Still Spreading False Rumours in an Effort to Trick Politicians and Pressure Judges
  • 01.02.19 The Real Harm of Really Bad European Patent Grants
  • 01.22.19 The Whitewashing of the EPO Under António Campinos
  • 01.28.19 Another Call for EPO Leaks
  • 02.28.19 The Latest Brexit Developments Add Another Nail (Among Many) to the Unified Patent Court’s (UPC) Coffin
  • 03.04.19 Unitary Patent (UPC/A) Constitutional Complaint Can be Decided in a Matter of Years (If Ever)
  • 04.02.19 EPO Judges Lack Independence and the Internal Courts Are Seen to be Lacking Legitimacy (Decisions’ Validity) Under António Campinos
  • 04.11.19 EPO Still Wasting Budget, Paying Media and Academics for Spin
  • 04.27.19 The ‘Technical Effect’ of Attacking the Independence of Judges at the Boards of Appeal and Ignoring/Breaking the Law
  • 05.18.19 Unified Patent Court Won’t Happen Just Because the Litigation Microcosm Wants It